AbleText vs Viewable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AbleText
Capture text from photos, enhance readability with color adjustments and adjustable text size. Convert images to digital text that can be read aloud in multiple languages, copied, or shared.
- Photo text capture
- High contrast color options
- Adjustable text size
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Copy and share text
- Digital text conversion
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With AbleText you can take a photo of text from a book or paper with the high quality camera in your iPad. The photo can be manipulated with high contrast colours. Then transform this photo in to digital text. The text size can be made larger or smaller for easy reading. The text can be read out loud in the languages you have on your device. The text can be copied, shared or used in other applications.
Viewable
This app magnifies text and images for users with low vision, offering adjustable brightness and color modes. It allows for comfortable viewing at various distances, making reading material more recognizable for those with visual impairments.
- Magnifies text and images
- Seven levels of magnification
- Variable brightness control
- Color and high contrast modes
- Adjustable viewing distances
- Full visual field display
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Viewable can be used as a low vision aid to magnify text or images. It provides seven levels of magnification, variable brightness and color or high contrast black and white. Objects can be viewed with the desired magnification at a typical reading distance. Alternatively, objects can be held as close as 4 inches. There are two main advantages offered by Viewable: 1. Close viewing distances do not cause the discomfort or eye strain that is associated with high power reading glasses. 2. When viewed at higher magnification and at a near distance, objects will fill the entire visual field. This allows images or reading material to be more easily recognized for people with low visual acuity, or with patches of vision loss such as in macular degeneration or diabetic retinopathy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Viewable at none against AbleText's 1. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. AbleText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Viewable asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.0 for AbleText against 1.0 for Viewable. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
| Parameter | AbleText | Viewable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ABLECON AS | Howard Ellenberger |
Customer experience
AbleText
Viewable
In-app purchases
AbleText
- Upgrade$54.99
Viewable
No in-app purchases
